Note 35 — Chapter XXIII · THE WAR TO THE FIRST CESSATION, 1642-1643

Hugh Peters, ut sup. The narrative was ordered to be printed by a committee of the House of Commons immediately after Forbes’s return. Two letters from Forbes to the two Houses, dated Glin, September 27 and 28, were brought over by Peters and published October 11. He says the Irish were ‘so impudently bold as to father their rebellion upon his sacred Majesty,’ though they had never seen any warrant. Their ‘priests and prime commanders’ tried to make them fight desperately by saying there was no hope of pardon.